Bug#546265: lintian: Check if get-orig-source target is using maximum compression

["Nelson A. de Oliveira" <naoliv@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.14
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

If possible, would be good if lintian could check if debian/get-orig-source
(when used as a separated file) or the get-orig-source target of debian/rules
is using the maximum compression level when creating the tarball.

For example, I already saw a lot of get-orig-source targets doing this:

	tar cvzf package_1.0.orig.tar.gz package-1.0

while it would need to have GZIP=-9 exported somewhere or being called as:

	GZIP=-9 tar cvzf package_1.0.orig.tar.gz package-1.0


Thank you very much!

Best regards,
Nelson


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.naoliv1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils              2.19.91.20090910-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat              1.47-1             produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev              1.15.4             Debian package development tools
ii  file                  5.03-1             Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext               0.17-8             GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian       0.35.0+20060710.1  Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl       0.1.24             Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libdigest-sha-perl    5.47-1             Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii  libipc-run-perl       0.84-1             Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2            parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl      1.1600-9           Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl           1.37+dfsg-1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db                2.5.6-2            on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.0-25          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libtext-template-perl         1.45-1     Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db                        2.5.6-2    on-line manual pager

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